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14 Dec 2013

“Karibu Sana”

Border
crossing: Kenya to Tanzania

to

Name:
Isebania

No.
of officials: 6

Building:
3 buildings for Kenya exit, 2 buildings for Tanzania entry

Time
taken: 1
hour

Other:
Arriving into this border crossing, our car was immediately and forcibly stopped by a stinger being laid right in
front of our front tyres and we were ordered to pay the equivalent of 50p as a
council payment to leave the county/country – the receipt was a small piece of
paper. We were pleased to be able to say
that this was the only time any ridiculous “extra” cost was asked of us in
Kenya. As is now usual, the touts started to follow us and ask questions. Here we had no problem with
immigration but in Customs there was a guy who answered as the customs officer
but was actually an “agent”. We refused
to pay him his “agent fees” for passing our Carnet from our hands to the hands
of the actual customs officer. The
Tanzanian office was bliss. Easy to
navigate – no hassle – lovely staff who were interested in our journey and
telling us how to get to our next destination.
A perfect start to re-entering Tanzania.
It’s also worth mentioning that we were able to get in on our previous
Tanzanian visa as we had only travelled in East African Community. We heard
some people had had issues with that.